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SpaceLoft
American commercial suborbital rockets marketed by Up Industries. Data given is for first-launched prototype.
 AKA: SpaceLoft XL-1.  Status: Active. Payload: 9.00 kg (19.80 lb). Thrust: 45.00 kN (10,116 lbf). Gross mass: 200 kg (440 lb). Burn time: 14 s. Height: 4.88 m (16.01 ft). Diameter: 0.22 m (0.71 ft). Apogee: 130 km (80 mi). 
Up Industries marketed launches from Spaceport America in New Mexico for commercial / scientific microgravity research, in-space payload release, meteorological research, atmospheric studies, and university space-launch programs (click here for more  regarding educational opportunities. Their turnkey service included complete on-land recovery of experiments and data. Launches were offered for 'hundreds of dollars' and it was said that 16 launches had been booked through the end of 2007.
Payload: 9.00 kg (19.80 lb) to a 130 km altitude. 
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|  | SpaceLoft XL American single-stage commercial sounding rocket. Operational, first launch 2006.09.25. | 
Country: 
USA. 
Propellants: 
Solid. 
Agency: 
UP Aerospace, 
Up Industries. 
Bibliography: 
2. 
2006 September 25 - . 
20:14 GMT - . 
Launch Site: 
Spaceport America. 
LV Family: 
SpaceLoft. 
Launch Vehicle: 
SpaceLoft XL. 
 
FAILURE: Failure. 
2007 April 28 - . 
14:56 GMT - . 
Launch Site: 
Spaceport America. 
LV Family: 
SpaceLoft. 
Launch Vehicle: 
SpaceLoft XL. 
 
FAILURE: Failure. 
- Test / burial mission - . 
Nation: USA. 
Agency: UP Aerospace. 
Apogee: 117 km (72 mi). 
2009 May 2 - . 
14:00 GMT - . 
Launch Site: 
Spaceport America. 
LV Family: 
SpaceLoft. 
Launch Vehicle: 
SpaceLoft XL. 
- Education Launch - . 
Nation: USA. 
Apogee: 10 km (6 mi). 
2010 May 4 - . 
12:41 GMT - . 
Launch Site: 
Spaceport America. 
LV Family: 
SpaceLoft. 
Launch Vehicle: 
SpaceLoft XL. 
- SpaceLoft SL-4 - . 
Nation: USA. 
Agency: UP Aerospace. 
Apogee: 113 km (70 mi). Microgravity payload. 
2011 May 20 - . 
13:21 GMT - . 
Launch Site: 
Spaceport America. 
LV Family: 
SpaceLoft. 
Launch Vehicle: 
SpaceLoft XL. 
- SL-5 - . 
Nation: USA. 
Education/burial mission. 
2012 April 5 - . 
14:18 GMT - . 
Launch Site: 
Spaceport America. 
LV Family: 
SpaceLoft. 
Launch Vehicle: 
SpaceLoft XL. 
- SL-6 - . 
Nation: USA. 
Apogee: 117 km (72 mi). Technology. 
2013 June 21 - . 
13:57 GMT - . 
Launch Site: 
Spaceport America. 
LV Family: 
SpaceLoft. 
Launch Vehicle: 
SpaceLoft XL. 
- SL-7/FOP-1 - . 
Nation: USA. 
Apogee: 119 km (73 mi). UP Aerospace technology mission under NASA's Flight Opportunities Program.. 
2013 November 12 - . 
16:15 GMT - . 
Launch Site: 
Spaceport America. 
LV Family: 
SpaceLoft. 
Launch Vehicle: 
SpaceLoft XL. 
- SL-8 - . 
Nation: USA. 
Apogee: 116 km (72 mi). Technology mission. 
2014 October 23 - . 
13:33 GMT - . 
Launch Site: 
Spaceport America. 
LV Family: 
SpaceLoft. 
Launch Vehicle: 
SpaceLoft XL. 
- SL-9 - . 
Nation: USA. 
Apogee: 124 km (77 mi). Microgravity payload.. 
2018 September 12 - . 
14:33 GMT - . 
Launch Site: 
Spaceport America. 
LV Family: 
SpaceLoft. 
Launch Vehicle: 
SpaceLoft XL. 
- ADEPT - . 
Nation: USA. 
Apogee: 114 km (70 mi). Technology mission. Impacted Spaceport America, NM. 
2018 September 17 - . 
14:09 GMT - . 
Launch Site: 
Spaceport America. 
LV Family: 
SpaceLoft. 
Launch Vehicle: 
SpaceLoft XL. 
- FOP-5?/Celestis - . 
Nation: USA. 
Apogee: 114 km (70 mi). Technology mission. Impacted Spaceport America, NM. 
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